Those who sipped or sniffed ether and chloroform in the 19th century experienced a range of effects from these repurposed anaesthetics, including preternatural mental clarity, psychological hauntings, and slippages of space and time. Mike Jay explores how…

Some of San Francisco’s emptiest buildings can be tied to cutbacks by tech giants...

We use GPT-4 to automatically write explanations for the behavior of neurons in large language models and to score those explanations. We release a dataset of these (imperfect) explanations and scores for every neuron in GPT-2.

Four Questions Concerning The Internet, part two

In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an “embarrassment of riches.”

A new study that analyzed 60 commonly available beverages found mixed-fruit juices and plant-based milks such as oat and almond were most likely to contain levels of toxic metals above federal drinking water standards. 

The IPFS DHT experienced a serious incident in the beginning of 2023, but users hardly noticed thanks to the power of a decentralized network!

How many different ways do people use chopsticks to pick up food? Here's your pictorial map to ten thousand grips.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. In one aspect, one of the systems includes an encoder neural network configured to receive the input…

Neuropsychopharmacology - Dose-response relationships of LSD-induced subjective experiences in humans

UC San Diego scientists find an auto-signaling mechanism driving the T cell anti-tumor response; findings may inspire new cancer therapeutics and biomarkers.

It’s 1178 BCE and the sun never sets on the Ugaritic Empire/Kassite Federation/Old Babylonion Empire/Ugaritic trade network! And it’s all thanks to bronze, the hardest and most durable metal to ever come down the pike. Yes, whether you’re looking to smelt…

Or "Spiderman Is My Boyfriend"

The first pallets of Framework Laptop (13th Gen Intel Core) systems and Mainboards have left our factory in Taiwan and are in our warehouse, getting prepared for shipment.

A new study, forthcoming in The Accounting Review from Jessica Watkins, assistant professor of accountancy in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendo...

Currently, the floating point numbers 0.0 and -0.0 have distinct internal representations. That can be seen if they are converted to binaries: 1> <<0.0/float>>. <<0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0>> 2> <<-0.0/float>>. <<128,0,0,0,0,0,0,0>> However, when they are matched…